Chapter 88: All-Out Counteroffensive

Zu Xiaohua's vision suddenly darkened; the thorn illusion prison spread like a fishing net, instantly expanding, pressing down like a black cloud bearing immense weight.

Ferocious thorns brandished their fangs and claws, spikes flashing into a cold light, as if to tear Zu Xiaohua apart instantly and swallow her into endless dread.

But…, even though the thorn illusion prison was mighty in momentum and full of vigor, before Zu Xiaohua it was utterly fragile.

Roar!

Zu Xiaohua lowered her head and rammed, and the thorn illusion prison shattered everywhere.

"This..."

Zi Youying stared, dumbstruck; she knew Zu Xiaohua was terrifying, but she never imagined she could be this terrifying.

Immune to attacks, ignoring divine artifacts—this is truly invincible.

Zu Xiaohua was also thoroughly enraged.

First she took a palm strike.

Then she was targeted by the thorn illusion prison.

Although neither caused her any substantive effect.

But dragon's majesty must not be offended.

She is the Dragon Ancestor.

Roar!

Zu Xiaohua raised her head and let out a long roar, exhaling surging dragon flame from her mouth, which instantly condensed into a square cage, firelight radiating outward.

An eye for an eye.

Zi Youying foolishly tried to trap her with the thorn illusion prison.

And she returned a prison to Zi Youying.

The square flame prison instantly bound Zi Youying.

Even though she possessed quasi-emperor-level or greater strength.

Yet she ultimately could not break free of the bonds.

Now then.

Behave yourself now?

Zu Xiaohua straightened her body, a powerful suction began drawing the myriad-thing qi from within Zi Youying's body.

Boom!

Streams of myriad-thing qi were pulled from Zi Youying's body, inhaled into Zu Xiaohua like spiritual energy.

Feeling the myriad-thing qi draining away, Zi Youying grew extremely tense.

She had laid plans for centuries, found the Hundred Flowers Fairy with an ethereal body, and, using the Fairy as a base, cultivated thirty thousand descendants possessing myriad-thing qi.

The goal was the blood sacrifice, to increase her own myriad-thing qi, then break through to the Great Emperor Realm.

But now, after spending centuries preparing, in just a few seconds she had one‑fifth of her myriad-thing qi sucked away.

At this rate, it won't be long before all her myriad-thing qi is completely devoured.

"Lin Yang, are you really not going to let it stop?"

"I warn you one last time: if you keep devouring my myriad-thing qi, your disciple and those nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine disciples will die."

Zi Youying tried to threaten.

"Is that so?"

"Then show me how you can contact them."

Lin Yang wore a smile and spoke in a deep voice.

"Good."

"Since you're courting death, don't blame me for being ruthless."

"Just wait and regret."

Zi Youying then decided, activating the blood sacrifice power, letting the Ancestral Dragon first devour the myriad-thing qi of those nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine disciples, after which she would look for a chance to flee.

Thus, even if she had to die, those people would die first.

Her scheme could be called utterly wicked.

But imagination is ultimately beautiful.

She had just prepared to act.

Suddenly.

She then sensed that the blood sacrifice foundation underground had malfunctioned.

Boom!

Blood Sacrifice Core Region.

Li Yilan, having been possessed by a senior from within the Green Ring, saw her strength instantly rise to the late Great Sage Realm.

With such power, destroying the blood sacrifice site was naturally unstoppable.

Boom!

The crystal coffin binding her body instantly exploded.

And at the instant the coffin shattered,

the entire blood sacrifice foundation suffered a fatal blow.

This was like a tire leaking air.

Once there was a flaw, a single thread pulling the whole body, the entire blood sacrifice plan was affected.

And on the other side.

The sudden change also gave the Hundred Flowers Fairy, who had been trapped in a dead end, an unexpected opportunity.

Break it for me!

She also didn't waste words, immediately circulated the myriad qi within her body, beginning to strip the black demonic qi from the Purple Spirit Flower.

Because the foundation of the blood sacrifice was destroyed by Li Yilan, the Hundred Flowers Fairy operated extremely easily.

The speed of stripping the black demonic qi also suddenly accelerated.

Thus, the Hundred Flowers Fairy's counterattack naturally dealt a heavy blow to Ziyouying.

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And Li Yilan continued to wreak destructive havoc.

After shattering the stone coffin that bound herself.

She then began to shatter the stone coffin that bound her parents.

Thus.

Three stone coffins were shattered; the impact on the blood sacrifice could be called fatal.

Then she attacked the blood sacrifice altar.

That is the source of all evil.

That is the foundation of the blood sacrifice.

Boom!

It seemed to sense the threat; on the blood sacrifice altar, gathered together were over a dozen monsters drenched in blood.

These guys were naturally the backup arranged by Ziyouying to guard the blood sacrifice altar.

However, Li Yilan now possesses late-stage Great Sage strength, so she naturally wouldn't fear them.

"Kill!"

Li Yilan knew that to stop the blood sacrifice, she must slaughter them all and destroy the blood sacrifice altar.

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While Li Yilan and the Hundred Flowers Fairy strove to break the formation, Lin Yang on this side also didn't cease.

"Looks like you're the one who should regret it, huh?"

Lin Yang smiled and looked at Ziyouying.

At this moment, she was pallid, completely dazed.

Earlier, she was preparing to gather the myriad qi of the nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine disciples to resist the devouring of Zuxiaohua.

Who would have thought, she actually couldn't gather those myriad qi.

Her myriad qi actually separated from those people's myriad qi, and was stripped away.

Furthermore.

She not only suffered attacks from Zuxiaohua, but also from two different forces.

"Core region, those three skeletons have a problem."

"Impossible, those three skeletons are the ones closest in bloodline to the Hundred Flowers Fairy; how could they have a problem?"

"Wait, that girl actually has late-stage Great Sage strength; is she destroying the blood sacrifice altar?"

Sensing the situation occurring in the blood sacrifice's core region, Ziyouying was dumbfounded.

She couldn't understand: as the child of the Li clan patriarch and his wife, Li Yilan actually had no bloodline left by the Hundred Flowers Fairy in her body.

Precisely speaking, her body utterly lacked myriad qi.

How could this be? She had previously studied Li Yilan; the other party clearly had the Li clan couple's bloodline, and she could clearly sense abundant myriad qi on Li Yilan, so why has it suddenly vanished?

There must be a problem; if Li Yilan lacked the Li clan couple's bloodline, she would certainly not use Li Yilan's body as the skeleton to activate the blood sacrifice, for she is not stupid.

But now…

Everything is inexplicable; which link exactly went wrong?

Furthermore.

And Li Yilan actually possesses late-stage Great Sage strength.

This is too abstract.

It's obvious that Ziyouying didn't anticipate this step either.

While she was analyzing the situation.

Li Yilan, with unstoppable momentum, slew those monsters and destroyed the blood sacrifice altar with a single sword.

The Hundred Flowers Fairy likewise exerted force, completely removing the black demonic qi from the Purple Spirit Flower.

Thus, there was no myriad qi to supply the blood sacrifice.

This means they have stopped the blood sacrifice.

Zuxiaohua's devouring of the myriad qi on Ziyouying's body has also accelerated to a terrifying extent.

After all, without the nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine disciples supplying myriad qi, the amount is indeed reduced.

It can only frantically suck the myriad qi from Ziyouying's body.

Seeing the blood sacrifice plan thwarted, the situation already lost, Ziyouying feared she had only a slim chance of survival, and was terrified out of her wits.

And just then, she collapsed with a plop onto the ground.

"Lin Yang, show mercy."